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A saviour pod is rather different than a drop pod. A drop pod is the future version of an Apollo re-entry vehicle, which you use for landing amongst your enemies.

The saviour pod in Death or Glory, IIRC, is more like a one use space shuttle.
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Saviour pods seem largely to just be a kind of ejection/escape pod.
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Cykeisme wrote:Got the name of the female Inquisitor?
I'm curious, need to see if I can find any references to the incident(s).
white_rabbit wrote:Well, there are various examples, some have them setting down rather gently, others have them "liquifying" hundreds of Nids when they hit...

I suppose it depends on how psychotic the Marines are feeling at the time.
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Well, technically, that sort of stuff will happen regardless when you have any sort of hypervelocity (or hypersonic, or even supersonic) impact of sufficient mass occur. Hell, even the retro thrusters probably will do some damage on descent if they're fired close to the ground. In the Blood Angels novels they had drop pods physically crashing through the sides of BUILDINGS undamaged.
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